Best Exhibitions Starting in October 2024
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Tokyo Art Beat presents a selection of the best exhibitions opening in October 2024. Bookmark the exhibitions on the TAB website or TAB app and never miss the openings and closings.
- 【Tokyo】Monet: The Late Waterscapes (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
- 【Tokyo】Modern Images of Ancient Clay Figures (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
- 【Tokyo】Alec Soth "A Room of Rooms" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
- 【Tokyo】Momoko Sakura Exhibition (Mori Arts Center Gallery)
- 【Tokyo】Takesada Matsutani Exhibition (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery)
- 【Tokyo】Terence Conran: Making Modern Britain (Tokyo Station Gallery)
- 【Tokyo】Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
- 【Kanagawa】Unkei and the Miura Clan (Yokosuka Museum of Art)
- 【Kanagawa】Koji Fukiya "Taisho / Showa Modernist" (Hiratsuka Museum of Art)
- 【Aichi】Potential Not to Be and Not to Do; Anarchism as Alternative Art and Other Ways of Life (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)
- 【Kyoto】Gucci Cosmos (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
- 【Kyoto】The Birthplace of Great Masters: Modern Japanese Painting in Kyoto (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
- 【Kagawa】Home Sweet Home (Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art)
【Tokyo】Monet: The Late Waterscapes (National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo)
Claude Monet (1840-1926) captured the fleeting moments of light and the changing moods of nature on canvas with his keen eye. However, his art became more abstract and introspective as he grew older. At the heart of this exhibition are the numerous large-scale "Water Lilies" paintings created during the period of trial and error in Giverny. This is a rare opportunity to see the most extensive "Water Lilies" collection assembled in Japan.
Venue: National Museum Of Western Art, Tokyo
Schedule: October 5 - February 11
Fee: Adults ¥2300; University Students ¥1400; High School Students ¥1000; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
【Tokyo】Modern Images of Ancient Clay Figures (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
The images of Haniwa and Dogu excavated from ancient strata have permeated Japan and become well-established characters. With a focus on art, this exhibition traces the genealogy of "motifs of unearthed objects" that have leaped onto the stage of cultural history to examine the changing gaze directed toward Haniwa, Jomon potteries, and Dogu.
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Schedule: October 1 - December 22
Fee: Adults ¥1800; University Students ¥1200; High School Students ¥700; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
【Tokyo】Alec Soth "A Room of Rooms" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
Alec Soth has earned global acclaim for his narrative-driven photographs, often depicting scenes from his native Midwest region of the United States. The exhibition showcases a wide range of Soth's photographs, from the artist's first published series, "Sleeping by the Mississippi," to his most recent endeavor, "Advice for Young Artists," set to be issued this fall.
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Schedule: October 10 - January 19
Fee: Adults ¥800; University Students ¥640; High School, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥400.
【Tokyo】Momoko Sakura Exhibition (Mori Arts Center Gallery)
Momoko Sakura is a versatile artist who excelled as a manga artist, essayist, lyricist, and scriptwriter, continually creating new characters and essays. Making her debut as a manga artist in 1984, she created beloved and influential works such as Chibi Maruko-chan and Coji-Coji. This exhibition showcases approximately 300 original paintings and manuscripts, including representative works, in an unprecedented volume.
Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery
Schedule: October 5 - January 5
Fee: Adults ¥1800, University and High School Students ¥1500, Junior High School Students and Under ¥800.
【Tokyo】Takesada Matsutani Exhibition (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery)
Throughout a career spanning more than sixty years, Paris-based artist Takesada Matsutani (1937-) has created outstanding works in which the expressions, textures, and presence of material objects are interwoven with the surge and flux of life. This exhibition introduces Matsutani's entire oeuvre from his beginnings, including artworks, documents, and video footage, investigating the broad range of his work from a contemporary viewpoint.
Venue: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Schedule: October 3 - December 17
Fee: Adults ¥1600, University and High School Students ¥1000, Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Tokyo】Terence Conran: Making Modern Britain (Tokyo Station Gallery)
Sir Terence Conran (1931-2020) believed that "plain, simple, useful" design enhances the quality of life. Through his work, he pursued design-driven transformation with a broad perspective that spanned individual living spaces and urban and societal scales. This exhibition features over 300 items and materials, including early products like patterned tableware and textiles, maquettes for furniture designs, items created for shops and restaurants, personal belongings that inspired his ideas, his writings, photographs, and videos.
Venue: Tokyo Station Gallery
Schedule: October 12 - January 5
Fee: Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1300, Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Tokyo】Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
This is the first solo museum exhibition in Asia by Japanese-American artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, who has been showing his performance works at numerous art biennials and international museums since the 2000s. Visitors are invited to experience Arakawa-Nash's performance art, in which children, paintings, histories, music, bodies, conversations, and humor work together in a dissonant yet enveloping way. The exhibition also features works by modern and contemporary artists.
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo
Schedule: October 30 - December 16
Fee: Free
【Kanagawa】Unkei and the Miura Clan (Yokosuka Museum of Art)
The Miura clan of warriors held great power on the Miura Peninsula in the 12th and 13th centuries and dominated political power in the formative years of the Kamakura shogunate. Many temples associated with the Miura clan and symbolizing its status were built in the Yokosuka area. This exhibition presents nine Buddhist statues that received the prayers of warriors in the eastern provinces, focusing on five statues by Unkei.
Venue: Yokosuka Museum of Art
Schedule: October 26 - December 22
Fee: Adults ¥1000; University and High School Students, Seniors 65 & Over ¥800; Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Kanagawa】Koji Fukiya "Taisho / Showa Modernist" (Hiratsuka Museum of Art)
Koji Fukiya (1898-1979) pursued a career as a Japanese-style painter; however, after being introduced to Shojo magazines by Yumeji Takehisa, he quickly became a popular figure of his time as an illustrator. He peaked his popularity in the 1930s with his modern depictions of women, and after the war, expanded his horizons by illustrating fairy tales and picture books and working in animation. This exhibition brings together approximately 500 works and provides a comprehensive retrospective of Fukiya's artistic career spanning about 60 years.
Venue: Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Schedule: October 5 - November 24
Fee: Adults ¥800, University and High School Students ¥500, Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Aichi】Potential Not to Be and Not to Do; Anarchism as Alternative Art and Other Ways of Life (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art presents an exhibition focused on anarchism. Starting with the works of Neo-Impressionist painters, it showcases artists from the post-World War II period to the present who have continued to create while engaging with, or intentionally distancing themselves from, art and society and, at times paradoxically, leverage institutions to their advantage.
Venue: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Schedule: October 12 - February 16
Fee: Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1100, Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Kyoto】Gucci Cosmos (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
Following its success in Shanghai and London, Gucci Cosmos, a cutting-edge archival exhibition of the House's most iconic designs, will open in Kyoto. As a traveling exhibition, it transports the House's heritage and craftsmanship across the world. Gucci Cosmos opens the doors to the Gucci Archive in Florence and highlights how storied pieces and emblems have woven their way throughout time. This stop will also feature dedicated narratives and elements echoing Kyoto's and Japan's vibrant tradition and innovation history.
Venue: Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
Schedule: October 1 - December 1
Fee: Adults ¥2200; University and High School Students ¥1500; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
【Kyoto】The Birthplace of Great Masters: Modern Japanese Painting in Kyoto (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art)
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art presents a special exhibition commemorating the relocation of Kyoto City University of Arts. Kyoto painters have woven the school's history, entrusting the future of Japanese painting to its halls. This exhibition reflects on the university's predecessors and its development in the modern era as the Kyoto City School of Painting through various documents and masterpieces of Japanese paintings.
Venue: Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
Schedule: October 11 - December 22
Fee: Adults ¥1800, University and High School Students ¥1300, Junior High School Students and Under free.
【Kagawa】Home Sweet Home (Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art)
The word "home" encompasses not only the physical space where we live but also the collective entity of the family that gathers there, as well as the concept of a homeland or native country. In the context of a challenging society affected by pandemic and war, what is the meaning of "home?" This exhibition presents works by contemporary artists from both Japan and abroad, exploring themes such as history, memory, identity, people's place in the world, and their roles within it.
Venue: Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
Schedule: October 12 - January 13
Fee: Adults ¥950; University Students ¥650; High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
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